Political visions (and where to find them)
(2022)
Journal Article
All Outputs (11)
Entrepreneurial egalitarianism: How inequality and insecurity stifle innovation (2022)
Report
Despite recent advances in our understanding of how innovation happens – for example, recognising the role of the state in fuelling private sector innovation, and of user demand in enabling the generation and dissemination of innovation – the assumpt... Read More about Entrepreneurial egalitarianism: How inequality and insecurity stifle innovation.
2022 Autumn Statement discussion (2022)
Digital Artefact
Five things to look out for in the 2022 Autumn Statement (2022)
Digital Artefact
The 2022 Autumn Statement is Rishi Sunak’s first real opportunity to showcase his plans as Prime Minister. In recent weeks, UK media outlets have carried rumours of fiscal “black holes”, savage spending cuts and dramatic tax rises. Much of this ma... Read More about Five things to look out for in the 2022 Autumn Statement.
What Sunak’s Autumn Statement could mean for skills and innovation (2022)
Digital Artefact
Dirigisme without Direction? Mapping the trajectory of the UK’s substitutive state (2022)
Presentation / Conference
The Regulator’s Trilemma (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Building back before: fiscal and monetary support for the economy in Britain amid the COVID-19 crisis (2022)
Journal Article
This paper explores the local impact of various forms of fiscal and monetary support for UK-based companies in the context of disruption caused by COVID-19 and associated public health restrictions, including support for household incomes (and theref... Read More about Building back before: fiscal and monetary support for the economy in Britain amid the COVID-19 crisis.
Pursuing the Knowledge Economy (2022)
Book
In the 1990s, the "knowledge economy" was hailed by policy-makers in developed democracies as an antidote to the anxieties arising from the era of market liberalization – an era characterized by the decline of skilled blue-collar work, increasing lev... Read More about Pursuing the Knowledge Economy.
Lessons from ’97: Keir Starmer’s narrative problem (2022)
Digital Artefact
High-skill, high-wage hubris: why social investment doesn’t guarantee shared prosperity (2022)
Digital Artefact
The government aims to shift the UK towards a high-skill, high-wage growth model, based on investment in education. Nick O’Donovan explores how this ambition was shared by New Labour politicians in the 1990s, and what lessons we can learn from the sh... Read More about High-skill, high-wage hubris: why social investment doesn’t guarantee shared prosperity.